Former Butler Basketball Star Andrew Smith Passes Away At 25

By Jason Fletcher

Former Butler Bulldogs standout Andrew Smith passed away on Tuesday following a battle with cancer. Smith was a member of the Bulldogs teams that played in back-to-back national championship games in 2010 and 2011 and was beloved by his teammates, coaches and most of all, his wife Samantha who tweeted this this morning:

Last week, Smith’s head coach at Butler Brad Stevens, now coach of the Boston Celtics, missed his team’s game against the Chicago Bulls so that he could visit his former player in the hospital. Stevens was visibly shaken by the news on Tuesday:

Another life gone too soon. R.I.P. Andrew Smith.

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